Pages with High Priority Issues 404 Errors
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Hi there,
I need some help on how to go about fixing the many 404 errors that i have on the site http://goo.gl/arwlON
Many of the 404 errors are images that were on the CDN and now i have not joking 6k 404 errors and a good percentage are the cdn images that I deleted of 3 years work as I did not need them. Would you guys/gals be able to help me on best solution to fixing them?
Thank you for your help in advance.
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Hi there
I would do the following - check your internal links, check your sitemap, and create a custom 404 page. You're going to want to make sure that you're not linking to these pages through your links and sitemap, and you're going to want to make sure that users have a way to navigate out of 404 pages or find what they are looking for.
I agree Mark that if there is a relevant page for those pages to be redirected to (category page or content relevant to it), then see what opportunities you have there.
Keep in mind that if you can find patterns in the URL structure, you have the opportunity to block these pages with your robots.txt. I would be careful, however, because this could easily backfire if you don't know what you are doing.
Remember - Google in Search Console puts these errors in priority order, so run through those, see what kind of pages they are, where they live, and look at the resources above to see what kind of opportunities that you have to remedy the issue.
Hope this helps! Good luck!
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Hello there,
Best solution is to talk to your Web Dev team and ask them to reassign all broken links to the relevant page of your site. This will improve your website SEO and at the same time the number of visitors from directing the dead links to existing page.
Hope this helps.
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